New York City ♥

Hi everybody!

This time I’m going to talk about a free topic this is “the place that I would like to visit in the world”. And well, my favorite one definitely are the United States of America, specially the state of New York. But the best of it, is that I will travel to this city when I finish the university and I think that it will be the best trip of my life.

I like that country because there are a lot of amazing things, like well-known monuments. I think that New York is the city that meets all that things, like the statue of liberty, broadway, the empire state, etc. That's why people call it "the city of the world". I will try to visit everything. I would like to there on winter holidays to enjoy a nice weather.

I will go to the statue of liberty, Manhattan, the Empire State, Time Square, the Bronx Zoo, Central park, the Moma, Coney Island, and all the really interesting places that are in there.

Well, if you ask me if I would like to live and work there, I would not be so sure about it because in my opinion New York is a stressing city to live. So New York it is mainly my first option to travel to when I have the time and the money, and also I would to visit other countries like France, or Egypt. But will, this is only for tourism because is Chile for me is the best place to live in the world.

I hope, that I would never have to write blogs again, because it wasn’t never easy for me, but I think that I did it the best I could.

This is all!
Bye!

"Chile's bicentennial year"

In 2010 Chile celebrated 200 years of independence an all Chilean hoped that this was a great year. The government had many projects in process of construction such as new cultural centers, museums, remodeling of some cities, etc. with which would do a great celebration and everybody looked forward because obviously only celebrate 200 years once. But nobody imagined that Chile’s bicentennial year would be full of very difficult times and situations too which often make us forget that this was a year of celebration.

In February when we all were preparing to return to work, at the university or school, suddenly we were shaked for an earthquake of 8.8 and a tsunami. This was the worst natural disaster experienced in Chile since 1960. There were many areas in the country affected by the earthquake in where many people died and many lost their homes. Everyone in the country were very sad and they had no desire to celebrate the bicentennial now. The government should worry about the country's reconstruction and many countries around the world sent aid to collaborate with Chile.

Some months after, when people are slowly recovering from the disaster, another unfortunate event occurred. August 5 there was a collapse in the mine San José in the city of Copiapó, 33 miners were trapped in it. The country was devastated again because people believed that the miners were dead. Inmediately started the rescue work and all had great faith that everything would be fine. Then, 70 days after this happened, the 33 miners were rescued alive and the whole country was happy about it. The event got back to the world and this was the largest mine rescue in the history.

Maybe this was not a typical year of bicentennial, but happened many good events too such as Chile´s participation in world cup, the celebration of national holidays, etc. Chile no forgets the events occurred in this year and everyone knows that these events brought us together more as a country too. Finally Chile celebrated the bicentennial year and although the celebration was not as had been thought at the beginning of the year, we can say that the Chile's bicentennial year will always remember him.

"myths and trues about the brain"

Hi everyone!

This time I'll write about Dr. Maldonado's talk which was on past tuesday. He talked about "Myths and trues about the brain". In my point of view this presentation was very interesting because I thought that some myths were true!

Human brain weigth 75 Kg., this is 2% of total body weigth. Also the human brain uses 25% of the oxygen we breathe and it has millions of neurons too. The human brain is wordeful, this organ is responsible for the functionaly of the human body and for this reason the human brain is full of myths.

A myth about the human brain is "You only use 10 percent of your Brain". According to Dr. Maldonado the neurons and other brain cells are constantly in use. Even, when we sleep our brain is fully active, when we are resting our brain is making multiple connections. Every action takes various areas of our brain. For this reason we need to use more than 10 percent of our brain, in fact we use 100 percent of it!. The myth is totally false.

This myth caught my attention because I think that was true it. I had read that the great Albert Einstein used only 10 percent of his brain, but he was a genius and for this I feel that the myth was true.

I think that this presentation give me new knowledge. As a future midwife I must educate the community, for this reason I should know the myths and truths about the human body!

Bye!